Job 4:20
Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
In Context
21They are like tent ropes that are pulled up, and they collapse in death. They die without wisdom.’”
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. When he died, no one mourned him. He was buried in the City of David, but not in the royal tombs.
Job 14:14Will the dead live again? Then I would have hope through all my time of trouble until my release comes.
Job 16:22For in a few short years I shall go down that road from which I shall not return.”
Job 20:7they will vanish forever like their own excrement. People who knew them will ask, ‘Where have they gone?’
Psalms 39:13Please leave me alone so I can be cheerful again, before I am dead and gone.
Psalms 92:7even though the wicked grow up quickly like grass, and even though people who do evil flourish, they will be destroyed forever!
Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →